OSM location of Black Ball Camp
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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fort, tower (deprecated)
{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -3.454245, 51.1743268 ] }
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- Iron Age Britain (ca. 800 BC/BCE - ca. 100 AD/CE) (confident)
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OpenStreetMap (Way 180007814, version 2, osm:changeset=17613126, 2013-09-01T05:05:27Z)
As with most Iron Age hill forts, Black Ball Camp has a long history of occupation. Cunliffe's mainstream theory of hill forts emerging in Britain during the early first millennium BC is the basis for assigning a PRIA chronology to this place.